## 1 April 2023 - 31 March 2024 ANNUAL REPORT **PREPARED BY :** Hazel Meyer Chair Spelthorne Breastfeeding Friends ## CONTENTS ## **1. WHO ARE WE?** ## **2. VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY** ## **3. TRAINING** ## **4. WHAT'S NEXT? 5. FINANCIAL REPORT** ## **WHO ARE WE?** Spelthorne Breastfeeding Friends is a charitable group established to contribute to the promotion, protection and continuation of breastfeeding within the Borough of Spelthorne. Our objectives are to: Promote volunteering of mothers of any age who have breastfed their own baby/s or are still breastfeeding and have the unique quality of being able to relate to mothers from a similar community, culture and values sets Develop capabilities, competencies, skills, understanding and employability of volunteers Act as a source of up-to-date information about breastfeeding and feeding-related issues, the practical task of looking after babies and the importance of attunement, attachment and empathy Provide mother-to-mother breastfeeding and other practical support for new mothers Work closely with other organisations is Spelthorne who are supporting new parents Help promote the benefits of breastfeeding to women less likely to breastfeed and providing appropriate support ## **VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY** ## **Breast pump hire scheme** Our free breast pump hire scheme has continued to be accessed from parents in Spelthorne and the surrounding boroughs although the demand has been much less than in previous years. The day-to-day administration has been taken over by one of our volunteers and three other volunteers are acting as pump hire agents - organising the collection/delivery of pumps and offering expressing and breastfeeding support to mothers hiring the pumps. The scheme is actively promoted at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital and the midwives have told us how valuable parents find it when they are working on establishing breastfeeding. **THIS YEAR WE HIRED OUT AROUND 15 PUMPS** ## **TRAINING** We did commission a training course for volunteers this year but we found it very difficult to recruit many people as it seems like the capacity for parents to offer their time for free is becoming limited. Unfortunately none of the recruits completed the training due to various factors. We will be putting any training programmes on hold as we reconsider the future of the charity. ## **WHAT'S NEXT?** Next year we will continue to run our pump hire loan scheme but will be dicussing the viability of running the charity in the future especially. ## **FINANCIAL REPORT Financial Report for Spelthorne Breastfeeding Friends as of 31/3/2024** **Spelthorne Breastfeeding Friends 1188340 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 4/1/2023 3/31/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Balance brought forward
2,685.02
Breastpumprental fee
225
Grants
**-**
Donation for breastpumprental scheme
**-**
LotteryGrant
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,910**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 2,910**
**A3 Payments**
Training package
**720**
pumpkits for loan scheme
**766**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 1,486**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 1,486**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 1,424**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 1,424**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,685**
**225**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,910**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,910**
**720**
**766**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,486**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,486**
**1,424**
**-**
**-**
**1,424**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,685**|| ||||**225**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**2,910**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**||**-**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**720**|**-**| ||||**766**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**1,486**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**1,486**|**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
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**-**|**1,424**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**1,424**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank Balance
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,424**
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**1,424**
**-**
OK
OK
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
Hazel Meyer
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
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**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| |||Hazel Meyer|1/20/2025| |||||